Quotes By Walter Cronkite

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.

Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough.

The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.

There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.

And that's the way it is.

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy.

The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.

I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family.

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.